German Reform Party

The German Reform Party (DRP), also known as the Anti-Semitic People's Party, was a national conservative and anti-Semitic political party in the German Empire which was active from 1880 to 1918. The first iteration of the party was founded in 1880 by Alexander Pinkert, a Saxony-based anti-Semite who advocated the elimination of the Jews and the rebirth of Germany. However, this first party petered out in 1890. It was refounded a year later by Otto Boeckel and Oswald Zimmermann as the "Anti-Semitic People's Party", and its main aim was the repeal of Jewish emancipation. The party gained a strong following around Hesse, winning 14 seats at the 1912 German federal election; it held parliamentary representation until the demise of the German Empire in 1918.